Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from a Night sprint at Bergen Sprint Camp in February 2013 in Bergen, Norway. This course had quite a few tricky legs, but we have chosen leg 3 for the analysis with leg 5 as a bonus leg. Thanks to Niklas Profors for ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 9 2013
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from an interesting course in a very tricky terrain – the Finnish WOC selection races. Many runners had big, big problems solving the orienteering challenges they got served from the course setter – you can see a collection of many, many of the ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 8 2013
Today we travel to Slovenia to one of those very interesting karst terrains where you may easily get lost if you are not careful with your orienteering. Although this type of terrain is maybe more challenging for just finding the control than for choosing the route – there are many ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 7 2013
On the 7th day in this Christmas calendar we travel to the country (or one of the countries) of Santa Claus – Finland. The place is Vuokatti – and the race is WOC middle. Today we take a look at the women’s course – the long leg to control number ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 6 2013
Today we have got the longest leg so far in Route to Christmas 2013 – and even with comments from the course setter. That’s exactly how we like it – all other course setters with interesting courses are of course encouraged to follow Revenger’s example and submit a nice leg ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 5 2013
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Norwegian Championships in night orienteering – a very tough race this year. After several years with mass start, the race was back with the traditional interval start scheme and a very challenging course. After a lot of wilderness in the start ...
Read More »Orienteering Achievement of 2013: Vote Now!
Read about the fantastic achievements of 13 athletes and 3 teams who are nominated for The Orienteering Achievement of 2013. Then post your votes for your favourites – and be part of the drawing for prizes worth nearly 4500 Euros! The stories behind the medals and the achievements is what ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 4 2013
– The first control on the M20/M18 and W20/W18 caused the runners some headache, our tipster wrote us in an e-mail about today’s leg in Route to Christmas – which is the first leg in the Jugendcupstaffel (a youth relay) organized in Switzerland at August 17th 2013. Thanks a lot ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 3 2013
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a really long leg in Kongsberg, Norway – used for the Norwegian Championships long distance. The chosen leg is leg number two – after a very short first leg. The Norwegian Champs Long was organized at September 12th 2013. This leg might be ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 2 2013
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Matera course which finished second in Course of th Year 2013. This 7th leg in the M21E course is one of the longest legs on the course. This particular course had a lot of challenging legs – the shorter ones being ...
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